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Intelligence Quotes

"Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do"
Jean Piaget
"Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?"
Philip Roth
"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change"
Charles Darwin
"Brilliant thinking is rare, but courage is even in shorter supply than genius"
Peter Thiel
"Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul"
John Keats
"Much learning does not teach understanding"
Heraclitus
"An intelligent person aims at being kind and the ability to be kind is the highest of the arts and the most like the work of God"
Robert Louis Stevenson
"Common sense ain't common."
Will Rogers
"A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people."
Will Rogers
"If stupidity got us in this mess, how come it can't get us out?"
Will Rogers
"A clever man commits no minor blunders"
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education."
Bertrand Russell
"There is no genius without a touch of madness"
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"The hands are the instruments of man's intelligence."
Maria Montessori
"People don’t like to have somebody knowing more than they do. It aggravates them"
Harper Lee
"Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary"
Blaise Pascal
"I have nothing to declare except my genius."
Groucho Marx
"Never argue with an idiot. They will only bring you down to their level and beat you with experience."
George Carlin
"Action is the real measure of intelligence"
Napoleon Hill
"There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe and it has a longer shelf life"
Frank Zappa
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